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Cross-Cultural Encounters between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds
Häftad, 2011
899 kr
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The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects and critical writings that crystallise this encounter, the essays in this volume demonstrate the variety and complexity of the connections between …
Italian American Cultural Fictions: From Diaspora to Globalization
Av Francesca de Lucia, Boris Vejdovsky m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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This book focuses on the development of Italian American cultural identity throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Italy is becoming a destination, rather than a starting point for immigrants. Immigration remains a source of tension and debate both in the United States and in …
Critical Gaze from the Old World
Transatlantic Perspectives on American Studies
Av Isabel Durán G.-Rico, Rebeca Gualberto m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
1643 kr
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This volume is the product of a joint effort to bring together critical views "from the Old World" on the field of American Studies. The contributors are leading Americanists working in Spanish academia who believe in the importance of working on American Studies from a multidisciplinary, inclusive …
Seeming and the Seen
Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture
Av Beverly Maeder, Jürg Schwyter m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1146 kr
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Taking their cue from the polymorphous relationship between word and image, the essays of this book explore how different media translate the world of phenomena into aesthetic, intellectual or sensual experience. They embrace the media of poetry, fiction, drama, engraving, painting, photography, …
Mapping Liminalities
Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts
Av Lucy Kay, Zoë Kinsley m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
1248 kr
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The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the limen or threshold from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, and across a broad range of historical periods. The authors all seek to revisit key questions …
Translocal Modernisms
International Perspectives
Av Irene Ramalho Santos, António Sousa Ribeiro
Häftad, 2008
1229 kr
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The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by rendering problematical the linear sequence from modernism to postmodernism. This book explores the many facets of modernism …
German and United States Second World War Military Cemeteries in Italy
Cultural Perspectives
Häftad, 2018
1106 kr
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Styles of soldiers’ commemoration reveal national self-images. US WW II military cemeteries in Italy and their German counterparts are analyzed as art-historical artifacts. Their aesthetics, together with results of archival research, reveal a self-assured US united in values, projecting victory …
